We loved each other very much and simply needed a break. “We were best friends trying to work through our problems in the best way we knew how. In recent days, Andy had sought divorce, demanding an end to the couple’s 24 year marriage, having been together for 30 years while a depressed Kate pleaded with her husband to stay.

He says that despite reports to the contrary, while he and Kate were living separately for a brief period of time, they were not legally separated or considering divorce. New revelations have alluded of marital discord between Kate Spade and her husband Andy Spade as the likely catalyst of the NYC fashioner designer’s suicide death. There were personal demons she was battling.”

There were personal demons she was battling. “There was no indication and no warning that she would do this. He also mentions that as of the night before her death, she “sounded happy” and that there seemed to be no sign she was contemplating ending her life. “She was actively seeking help and working closely with her doctors to treat her disease, one that takes far too many lives,” he says. In his statement, Andy also opens up about his wife’s struggles with anxiety and depression, and that she suffered from them for several years. he and Kate had separated and he was living in a nearby apartment. We've learned Andy Spade was not living at the family home. I have yet to see any note left behind and am appalled that a private message to my daughter has been so heartlessly shared with the media.The couple’s daughter, Bea, is 13 years old. Kate Spade was extremely depressed in her last days of life, because her husband wanted a divorce. We were co-parenting our beautiful daughter. We loved creating our businesses together. She was actively seeking help for depression and anxiety over the last 5 years, seeing a doctor on a regular basis and taking medication for both depression and anxiety. Anything else that is out there right now is false. We were best friends trying to work through our problems in the best way we knew how. We were not legally separated, and never even discussed divorce. We ate many meals together as a family and continued to vacation together as a family. Bea was living with both of us and we saw each other or spoke every day. 'For the past 10 months, we had been living separately, but within a few blocks of each other.

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